Tuesday, October 6, 2015

At the Battle of San Jacinto in April of 1836, the badly outnumbered
Texas forces under the command of General Sam Houston avenged the
historic defeat at the Alamo in San Antonio the month before by soundly
crushing General Santa Anna’s vastly superior Mexican Army. After that
battle, Santa Anna was forced to sign the Treaty of Velasco which
granted Texas its full independence. Texas immediately declared itself a
republic, with the victorious General Houston being named as its first
president.

However, to protect the new republic against any future
invasions by Mexico, the building of a chain of forts was begun across
Texas by the Republic’s militia, later assisted by units of the United
States Army. In 1849, four years after Texas had been admitted as the
26th state of the Union, one of these outposts was established in
central Texas on the Trinity River by the U. S. Second Dragoons and
named Fort Worth in memory of the late commander of the Department of
Texas, Major General Williams J. Worth, and by 1856, the town of Fort
Worth had already become the seat of surrounding Tarrant County.

Though standard histories leave Lord Dunmore’s 1775 emancipation proclamation out of the story of that conflict, it is indeed true as related below that the slaves of Patrick Henry, Jefferson and George Washington would have been emancipated had the revolution failed. Yet that war is viewed as a political and economic war, not a moral war. Lincoln’s intent to encourage race war in the South was identical to Lord Dunmore’s intent to defeat the South. In 1814, Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane did the same to wreak havoc in the South.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

Lincoln Follows Dunmore’s Proclamation

“The author [John Wilkes Booth, Francis Wilson] thinks in common with so many of his fellow countrymen, North and South, that the point at issue between the sections was a moral one rather than political and economic. The idea vitiates the value of his historical contribution. This almost universal misconception would be absurd or pathetic if it were not also tragic in its partisan representation of a great people. Would that history be were taught correctly, or the facts were set forth in proper proportion!

But alas for the story when he leans on others! For example, “The President [Johnson] now [1865] gave his attention to the Negro, for whose freedom, unquestionably, the war was fought.” Thus an incidental outcome of the conflict is herewith made the primary cause of strife!

It is to weep! Not merely because the admirable [author] says this, but because it is the pathetic delusion of millions of people.

If, in 1776, the British had won, the slaves of Washington, Mason, Henry and Jefferson would have been set free by virtue of Lord Dunmore’s proclamation of emancipation. But the Revolutionary struggle was not begun or waged on the issue of slavery, not to anybody’s present understanding. [Royal] Governor Dunmore was not concerned, primarily, with the freedom of the Negroes; he hoped that the promised freedom would handicap the rebellion against British authority.

President Lincoln freely admitted that his proclamation was “a war measure”; and he had been in favor of perpetuating, by Constitutional amendment, if need be, the “bonds of slavery” wherever it existed within the bounds of the United States. Such was the form of the Thirteenth Amendment as passed by a Northern Congress in 1861.

Why not believe Lincoln when he specifically said he was not waging the war to free the slave? Why not believe the testimony (now wholly lost sight of in the pathetic fallacy of the “moral” issue) of contemporary witnesses that the Northern armies would have melted away had any such idea been understood in 1861?”

General Grant held slaves. Lee was an emancipationist. A.W. Bradford was the Union Governor of Maryland in 1862-1864. He was a large slaveholder, while his neighbor, Bradley T. Johnson, a distinguished Confederate general, owned no slaves. Lincoln’s proclamation did not affect slavery in Maryland because slavery in Maryland was protected under the Union.”

British journalist
Lindsey Hilsum argues that many Syrians hold Russian President Vladimir
Putin for their friend and see Russians as saviors.

Residents
in the Syrian cities of Tartous and Latakia believe that Russia’s
military operation against the ISIL terrorist group would bring the war
in the country to an end, the British journalist wrote.

Moreover, they believe that the US is to blame for strengthening of the terrorists and their allies.

The website shooting tracker.com lists
the number of mass shootings in the United States each year and defines
a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are killed
or wounded by gunfire in a public place. By this definition, the
massacre in Oregon marked the 295th mass shooting in the United States
since Jan.

1.All Americans should ask themselves what
changes in gun policy might help curb such senseless violence. As a
law-abiding and socially conscious gun owner, I offer two sensible
proposals that most gun owners might support. It’s doubtful that any
meaningful change will be passed without some support from gun owners
and Second Amendment-supporting Republicans.

She certainly has an appropriate name. :)

State Department must list gun-loving NRA as terrorist organization

One terrorist group is responsible for more civilian deaths since
December 2012 (the Sandy Hook massacre) than Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas
and the Taliban. Yet it is the only nearly-state sponsored terrorist
group that is not listed by the U.S. State Department as such.

It is the National Rifle Association and for their unending lobbying
that’s kept a lid on gun control we now have 428 times more American
deaths by gun than deaths by foreign terrorists.

Almasdar News According
to a military source inside Dara’a City, over 450 militants from the
Free Syrian Army and another 250 people wanted by governmental authority
have turned themselves into the Syrian Security Forces after an
activist from the rebel group delivered a message, which specifically
stated their intentions to surrender to the state government if they
would be offered an amnesty hearing in exchange.

Thousands of PEGIDA supporters took the streets of Dresden,
Monday, to protest against the German government’s policy on refugees
and asylum seekers. Germany will welcome nearly 1.5 million Muslim migrants this year.

Author Robert Penn Warren writes below of “The Treasury of Virtue,” the psychological heritage left to the North by the War and the irrefutable basis of its long-serving Myth of Saving the Union. With his armies victorious the Northerner was free “to write history to suit his own deep needs . . . and knows, as everybody knows, that the war saved the Union.”
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

The Legacy of the War

“When one is happy in forgetfulness, facts get forgotten. In the happy contemplation of the Treasury of Virtue it is forgotten that the Republican platform of 1860 pledged protection to the institution of slavery where it existed, and that the Republicans were ready, in 1861, to guarantee slavery in the South, as bait for a return to the Union.

It is forgotten that in July, 1861, both houses of Congress, by an almost unanimous vote, affirmed that the War was waged not to interfere with the institutions of any State but only to maintain the Union.

The War, in the words of the House resolution, should cease “as soon as these objects are accomplished.” It is forgotten that the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 23, 1862, was limited and provisional: slavery was to be abolished only in the seceded States and only if they did not return to the Union before the first of the next January.

It is forgotten that the Proclamation was widely disapproved [in the North] and even contributed to the serious setbacks to Republican candidates for office in the subsequent election.

It is forgotten that, as Lincoln himself freely admitted, the Proclamation itself was of doubtful constitutional warrant and was forced by circumstances; that only after a bitter and prolonged struggle in Congress was the Thirteenth Amendment sent, as late as January, 1865, to the States for ratification; and that all of Lincoln’s genius as a horse trader (here the deal was Federal patronage swapped for Democratic votes) was needed to get Nevada admitted to Statehood, with its guaranteed support of the Amendment.

It is forgotten that even after the Fourteenth Amendment, not only Southern States, but Northern ones, refused to adopt Negro suffrage, and that Connecticut had formally rejected it a late as July, 1865.

It is forgotten that Sherman, and not only Sherman, was violently opposed to arming Negroes against white troops. It is forgotten that . . . racism was all too common in the liberating army. It is forgotten that only the failure of Northern volunteering overcame the powerful prejudice against accepting Negro troops, and allowed “Sambo’s Right to be Kilt,” — as the title of a contemporary song had it.

It is forgotten that racism and Abolitionism might, and often did, go hand in hand. This was true even in the most instructed circles [as James T. Ayers, clergyman, committed abolitionist and Northern recruiting officer for Negro troops confided to his diary] that freed Negroes would push North and “soon they will be in every whole and Corner, and the Bucks will be wanting to gallant our Daughters Round.” It is forgotten, in fact, that history is history.

Despite all this, the war appears, according to the doctrine of the Treasury of Virtue, as a consciously undertaken crusade so full of righteousness that there is enough oversurplus stored in Heaven, like the deeds of the saints, to take care of all small failings and oversights of the descendants of the crusaders, certainly unto the present generation. The crusaders themselves, back from the wars, seemed to feel that they had finished the work of virtue.

[Brooks Adams pronounced] “Can we look over the United States and honestly tell ourselves that all things are well within us?” [Adams] with his critical, unoptimistic mind, could not conceal it from himself, but many could; and a price was paid for the self-delusion.

As Kenneth Stampp, an eminent Northern historian and the author of a corrosive interpretation of slavery, puts it: “The Yankees went to war animated by the highest ideals of the nineteenth-century middle classes . . . But what the Yankees achieved – for their generation at least – was a triumph not of middle class ideals but of middle class vices. The most striking products of their crusade were the shoddy aristocracy of the North and the ragged children of the South. Among the masses of Americans there were no victors, only the vanquished.”

(The Legacy of the Civil War, Robert Penn Warren, University of Nebraska Press, 1998, pp. 60-65)

Cultural genocide, the planned and willful destruction of a culture
(in this case a Christian culture), is accomplished in many ways. The
orchestrated destruction of a culture is accomplished by the tearing
down of the flags and symbols of that culture and the destruction of its
historical monuments and the replacing of its names with others of a
more socialist intent.

It is also accomplished by the mid-education and intentional dumbing
down of the children of that culture so they know less than their
grandfathers about their history, heritage, faith, or anything for that
matter. This is often done via institutions of “learning” that are
subtly used to, in effect, make children dumber than they would be
otherwise, while taxing their parents to pay for the intentional
ignorance.

Just as was evidenced after the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech,
after Columbine and Tucson in 2011, and following the theater shootings
in Aurora, Colorado in 2012, US gun sales have soared following the mass-shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, which killed 10 people and injured seven others. As The FT reports, gun sales this year could surpass the record set in 2013, when gun purchases surged after the December 2012 Sandy Hook murders.

David Jacques, publisher of the Roseburg Beacon, told Bill O’Reilly on Monday that the
people of Roseburg would not welcome Barack Obama if he came to town to
politicize the funerals of the Umpqua College shooting victims.

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With his last election behind him, Obama is
free to be Obama. And it appears that he is, deep down, a liberal
commentator of the MSNBC variety -- perhaps providing a preview of his
post-presidency. The only apparent purpose of his gun speech was to
incite the faithful by expressing a seething arrogance.

But it matters when the president of the
United States decides that democratic persuasion is a fool’s game. It
encourages the kind of will-to-power politics we see on the left and
right. In this view, opponents are evil -- entirely beyond the normal
instruments of reason and good faith. So the only option is the
collection and exercise of power.

When the main players in our politics give
up on deliberative democracy, it feels like some Rubicon is being
crossed. Our system is designed for leaders who make arguments for their
views, seek compromise and try different policy angles to break
logjams. And when they lose, their proper recourse is . . . to make
more arguments, seek other compromises and try different policy angles.

A young, female ‘No Borders’ activist working in a migrant
camp on the France-Italy border remained silent about her gang rape by
Sudanese migrants for over a month because “the others asked me to keep
quiet.”

Colleagues are alleged to have said that reporting the crime would set back their struggle for a borderless world.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.